Jane Burnet (Disappointed by response,Wednesday, October 15) is absolutely right on insisting that Richard Drax MP is transparent about how his expenses are spent.

Transparency is essential to any healthy democracy: no voter can make up their mind without proper knowledge and information.

Televised debates between the leaders of political parties is part of the process of informing the way you’re likely to vote.

The recent BBC decision not to allow the Green Party airtime in these leader debates in next General Election’s campaign, whilst agreeing that UKIP’s Nigel Farage can participate beggars belief.

I am not a member of the Green Party but I can sympathise with their response to seek legal advice to change this blatantly undemocratic decision.

Their policies, including giving the living wage legal endorsement and taking the railways back into some form of public ownership, have a direct appeal to those of us on the left who are heartily sick of the timid, focus group obsessed fudges of Labour and the betrayals of the Liberal Democrats who sold out students when they got the sniff of power in May 2010. The Green Party should have an equal opportunity to promote sensible and popular policies.

Ultimately though, we will never see any real changes in Britain’s chronically inequitable society, until we get rid of the ‘first past the post’ voting system which virtually guarantees power for parties of the centre right, or the ‘cop out – hang on to what we’ve got’ centre.

The so-called recovery hasn’t been for the low waged and won’t be until we introduce a more representative proportional voting system.

What was on offer in the 2011 Referendum was hardly ‘game changing’ and even then those few who bothered to vote were hoodwinked into keeping a very undemocratic status quo. Who’s for pushing for some real change now?

Richard Denton-White, Fortuneswell, Portland